One of the nice document generation features of Flow is to create PDF documents from structured data, such as HTML. However, if you want to integrate images, you may not see the expected result. For demonstration purposes, suppose you want to have a PDF image that only includes. The flow may look something like the … Continue reading Creating PDF documents with images using Flow
Month: October 2018
Bypassing Connector Authentication in PowerApps
Have you ever had a PowerApp request your permission to access various services before it would load? If so, then that PowerApp is leveraging these connectors in some way. But what if you don't want each user to have to do that? What if some of the services require permissions that the end user doesn't … Continue reading Bypassing Connector Authentication in PowerApps
Avoiding never-ending Flow triggering
When Microsoft created the Do Until control action, fortunately they took care to avoid situations where loops would run forever by adding control limits that terminate the loop even if the logic condition is not met. By default, a Do Until loop will terminate after 60 iterations or 1 hour (PT1H in ISO8601 notation). Using … Continue reading Avoiding never-ending Flow triggering
Conditions, Loops, and Switches have moved
If you've been using Flow recently, you may have noticed that the location of the Condition, Do Until, Apply to each, Switches, and Scopes have moved. Previously they used to be available as part of the ...More button next to the + New step button or as part of the popup menu. No more. You will notice … Continue reading Conditions, Loops, and Switches have moved
Sending Custom Emails with Flow
About a year ago, I wrote an article on how you can use Flow to Mail Merge using Flow using a couple of SharePoint lists. This works great for sending the same email to all recipients or even structuring the email in different ways based on metadata captured in the Flow. However, I have faced … Continue reading Sending Custom Emails with Flow